Re: another gmc weirdness

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

> >  to see now has desktop icons that persist across different desktops.
> >  Great!  Unfortunately, if you have 2 desktops, only in the first desktop
> >  are you allowed to move the icons around.  If you move to the second
> >  desktop it snaps back to the original place.  Now this could be feature,
> 
> This is a known problem.  Fixing it would consist of getting the list
> of virtual root windows (which I contend are a bad idea in the first
> place), and hooking the necessary DnD signals to them.  I'll be happy
> to take a patch to do this.

Hmm.. Doesn't sound amazingly difficult.  Why is it a bad idea?  

	sri

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